genteel
/d͡ʒɛnˈtiːl/ adjective C2- Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
- Polite and well-mannered.
- Stylish or elegant.
- Aristocratic.
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It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
The remainder may be guessed by those whom genteel poverty has driven to ignoble expedient.
so genteel and so easy!
Collins, was a very genteel, pretty kind of girl.
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